After the Introduction, Essential Techniques is packed with essential cooking charts for dry beans and growing sprouts, including making nut and seed butters and milks. The cookbook is divided into five chapters: Spring, Early Summer, Late Summer, Autumn, and Winter with a Stocking the Panty section and easy Index.

This is the first cookbook I have read that divides recipes into seasonal sections coinciding with available seasonal vegetables. Recipes share have clear instructions for easy preparation and beautifully photographed pictures with seemingly no recipe lasting over 45 minutes to an hour to prepare (exception for preparation of certain dry beans requiring an overnight soak).

The chapters contain sections tilted Mornings, Small Measures, Mains, and Sweets. My favorite recipes the five seasons to prepare: